Homework was a good idea in the beginning, meant to help students retain the material taught to them earlier that day. But at this point it has been exploited to where it has become busy work and is being considered by the U.N. as a form of cruel and unusual punishment. (Let’s hope measure 236.9 passes!)
In the beginning of homework, there were only 3 subjects of larnin’: reading riting, and ‘rithmetic. But then, for some reason, most often blamed on the Socialists!!, the amount of subjects increased 50-fold, resulting in such classes as TV/Radio and AP Gibberish. Students now take 6 classes, all with completely different teachers, almost all of whom get together to brag about how much homework they assigned last week and what their plans are for next week. The other teachers get jealous and start homework wars with each other, the victor being whoever tortures their students the most. They also seem to plan to give large amounts of homework one day, then none the next. It’s a conspiracy!
Wednesday is my worst day for homework. On any given Wednesday, I get crushed by Spanish, Physics, math, and Chemistry. The strange thing is that I do as little homework at home as possible. I spend more time thinking about when I can do last night’s homework in school (seminar, library, under my desk in math, lunch) than actually doing my homework when I’m supposed to.
All in all, the once acceptable view of homework has been clouded forever into busy work and an obscenity by the very ones who created it.
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